... This chapter explores how and why in becoming feminists we are often designated as willful subjects: as being a problem because of our will. Returning to folklore and fictional fables of willful girls, it explores how willfulness is used to diagnose disobedience and dissent as deriving from...

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... from the shape of our own lives. The killjoy reappears here as the one who is made happy by the wrong things. The chapter considers feminism as an unhappy archive. This chapter explores how and why in becoming feminists we are often designated as willful subjects: as being a problem because...

..., notably his discovery that the most effective critic is the one who is willing to be a servant, and the most effective servant is the one who is willing to be a critic. disaster leadership building community social cohesion unifying creed civil religion ...

... out of the struggle for an ordinary life, and how we can think of lesbian feminism as a willfulness archive assembled from the shattered pieces left behind from that struggle. The chapter offers a way of thinking of lesbian feminism as the building of a fragile shelter. It suggests that this fragility...

... description of one who is restless, willing to live for a time without any settled context, a sojourner who’s always leaving. picaro sojourners restless feminism feminist picaresque ...